Backtesting Jobs

Backtesting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Backtesting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Backtesting over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 884 899
Rank change year-on-year +185 +15 +251
Permanent jobs citing Backtesting 12 26 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.025% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.030% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 46
10th Percentile £128,000 £62,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £155,000 £82,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £160,000 £135,000 £98,442
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +37.14% -21.25%
75th Percentile £165,000 £155,000 £162,500
90th Percentile £189,000 £164,000 £170,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £85,000 £67,570
% change year-on-year - +25.80% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backtesting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Backtesting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backtesting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backtesting in the UK

Backtesting
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backtesting.

Salary trend for Backtesting in the UK

Backtesting
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backtesting over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Backtesting in the UK

Backtesting
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backtesting within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +145 12 £160,000 +18.52% 183
London +111 12 £160,000 +10.34% 87

Backtesting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Tick Data
2 1 (8.33%) KDB
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
1 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 4 (33.33%) C++ Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) NumPy
1 2 (16.67%) Pandas
1 2 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) Django
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Flask
2 1 (8.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (41.67%) Equities
2 5 (41.67%) Fixed Income
3 4 (33.33%) Hedge funds
4 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Algorithmic Trading
1 11 (91.67%) Computer Science
2 10 (83.33%) Mathematics
3 9 (75.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 9 (75.00%) Low Latency
3 9 (75.00%) Memory Management
3 9 (75.00%) Multithreading
3 9 (75.00%) Physics
4 5 (41.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Integration Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Data Management
5 4 (33.33%) Investment Management
5 4 (33.33%) Systematic Trading
5 4 (33.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 2 (16.67%) Data Science
7 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 2 (16.67%) Statistics
8 1 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
5 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Bloomberg